Mozilla’s Ubiquity.
I wanted to start this post by asking how many of you do open a new web browser window or tab, go to Google to start your research when you’re looking for a movie, map, restaurant, club etc…
Or when you want to translate a text, you have to open a new window/tab, go to Google Translate or an online/offline dictionary, then go back to the web page which contains the text, copy that text, again go to Google translate page that you’ve just opened or dictionary and paste it down to translate the text.
But since I know that you and me did just that for a thousand times, I thought that is time to introduce a revolution in web browsing user’s experience – Ubiquity. This is not as big as AURORA, but it’s a must-have addon for Firefox.
So, what’s Ubiquity?
An experiment into connecting the Web with language.
For example lets say that you want to search some details regarding a movie title that you see in an advert. To do that you open Ubiquity and tell it to search that movie on imdb. The input command should be: “imdb movie title” (without the quotes, of course).
Another good example is represented by “translate” command. This one is quite magic. And I’m saying that because I used it a lot. Lets say that you only find the adequate information for a product on a chinese website. You select the text, open up Ubiquity (Ctrl + Space) and input the “translate” command. In no time you will see that the selected chinese text will be translated in eglish.
I have to mention that Ubiquity only translates in english. But there’s hope 
For a full preview watch the video below.
The Ubiquity command list can be found here or by typing: “command list” in Ubiquity and you’ll be automatically forwarded to Ubiquity command list web page.
This version is a beta release meaning that the version still has some bugs. I didn’t find any that will crash your web browser though 
Anyway, I hope that didn’t scare you off. You can download Ubiquity here.
Try it! It’s free.
